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MsgFiler

MsgFiler is a keyboard-based email filing application for Apple Mail. Type to filter down the list of mailboxes and press return to file selected messages in Mail. Navigate, select, move and copy emails without ever lifting your hands off the keyboard.

With MsgFiler, you can say goodbye to dragging and dropping, sore wrists, and an overflowing inbox and say hello to more time.

THANKS ! for having a copy of MsgFiler that works with the new MacOS 10.6.4 **on the day the new OS was released**. When I saw the new OS disabled my MsgFiler i came to your site, downloaded your latest 2.0.7 and installed it. It works just fine.

I just came across your plugin, and am so glad that I did!! Works great with 10.6.4. One question, and possibly feature request — is there the ability to restrict folders from a list? I have an IMAP account with lots of nested folders, and a similar Archive folder structure on my local machine. It would be nice to have the ability to restrict the Archive folder from showing up.

Thanks for your work on this app. My daily workflow just got much cleaner!

First and foremost, thanks for a great app!
Now for the help request: I’m running 10.6.4, received the error message about disabling msgfiler plugin due to incompatibility with mail 4.3 & message 4.3. Downloaded and installed MsgFiler 2.07. Received the same error msg. Rebooted, redownloaded, reinstalled, and received the same error. Anything suggestions?

– The unnecessary extra keypress (Enter + Enter again) that is required when multiple folders are matched in the search results. (This doesn’t happen if there is only one search result – a single Enter works). I don’t see the benefit – not that likely to save one from making mistakes, and just penalises you the rest of the time.

Any possibility of either or both options in future? Would be nice to know what’s coming up (roadmap).

My time to update MsgFiler is currently very limited due to current projects, so while there’s lots on the feature roadmap, including better keyboard support and smarter mailbox matching, there’s no timetable for when this uber-update is going to come out.

MsgFilter is exactly what I was looking for to help speed up e-mail processing. It’s so much faster than having to drag and drop messages into mail folders. My inbox is now heading back toward empty — where it should be! Definitely eight bucks well spent. Thank you!

My time to update MsgFiler is currently very limited due to current projects, so while there’s lots on the feature roadmap, including better keyboard support and smarter mailbox matching, there’s no timetable for when this uber-update is going to come out.

I would pay $16 per license for a version of MsgFiler with smart mailbox matching (i.e. learning which email address gets filed to which mailbox, then automatically choose and/or move to destination folder) and more configuration options.

“The unnecessary extra keypress (Enter + Enter again) that is required when multiple folders are matched in the search results. (This doesn’t happen if there is only one search result – a single Enter works). I don’t see the benefit – not that likely to save one from making mistakes, and just penalises you the rest of the time.”

A single ENTER key should always select the highlighted folder, independent of the number of matches.

Just tried 2.0.8 on leopard (10.5.8) without success.
Seemed to install without errors, but after starting Mail again
see no sign of MsgFiler in Message menu. Re-installed 2.0.3
which is working fine and is still the best shareware I’ve ever got!

If anyone was having problems with 2.0.8 not installing properly on your machine, please re-download the Disk Image and try again. There are a problem with the build architecture on the app, which I have correct. Sorry for the inconvenience!

To who it may concern, 09/07/2010
I have installed, uninstalled, and reinstalled “Move with MsgFiler” and it will not recognize my main Inbox, Drafts, Sent, or Trash under “MAILBOXES”. AOL Mailboxes, On My Mac Mailboxes, and an RSS feed are all recognized, however MsgFiler 2.0.8 will not accept the main Mac OS X Mail Mailboxes. I wanted to install MsgFiler 2.0.8 and make sure it would work before registering. I recently bought a 27″ 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 iMac, 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Ram, and a 2TB Hard Drive and I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I do understand the Mac and I am a heavy Mail user. This shareware program is exactly what I need to get my Mail in order, can you help? Thank you very much for any advice you can provide to correct these omissions.
Sincerely Yours,
Robert Wolf

I’m wondering about one thing: Could there be a “Move and Open” command? Of course, I can Move, then Open the target mailbox, but that takes longer.

The reason is that sometimes I want to drag a message to some other program. But when I move the message after doing this, the link from the other program to the message usually gets broken. So I move the message first — but then I need to focus on it again before dragging it, so I have to open.

I am having an issue setting up the cmd-9 shortcut key to bring up MsgFiler. When I go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse and try to add the keyboard shortcut for mail.app, nothing works. First of all, it doesn’t display Mail.app in the list, I have to select “other.” Once I navigate to find Mail.app in my apps folder, I add in the exact title of the menu item (Move with MsgFiler) and the keyboard command (cmd-9). After doing that, nothing works…Mail.app doesn’t even display in the drop down portion of the Keyboard & Mouse screen at the bottom. Any ideas?

I am running 10.5.8 in english, not another language. I do your step 1 and 2, then for 3 there is no mail.app…I have to select “other” and navigate to it (I have my apps organized in folders). Once I do that I do steps 4 and 5 and when I select “add” nothing happens. I actually have to select “add” twice. After clicking it once nothing happens, so I click it a second time and the window closes. BUT there is no new Mail.app shortcut in the Mouse and Keyboard pane at this point. SO strange.

@Adam: Great Program! Would it be possible to have the option of changing the default action from Move to Copy? This would help when opening MsgFiler with Command+9, select the correct folder and the hit enter to copy the message to the folder.

@Suzie – right now that’s not possible. I may offer additional configuration options for all of the commands in the future. Until then, you can hit command-shift-c to copy the files instead of moving them.

Hi, Adam. I’ve been trying for months to track down the cause of a loss of keyboard input when switching between Spaces, and in the last couple of weeks I’ve found that MsgFiler is involved. I no longer see a contact email address for you on this site, and the information I’d like to give you is rather long to type into this Reply form. Would you be willing to respond by email, so that I could give you the details?

Regarding the loss of keyboard input using spaces, I believe this is fixed in 10.6.5. Search for “Addresses keyboard responsiveness issues in the Dock when Spaces is turned on”. A colleague experienced this regularly and reports it’s no longer reproducible on 10.6.5.

Thanks for the news, but unfortunately the Spaces / MsgFiler problem is still happening on my iMac that’s running 10.6.5. Adam is being very responsive in the diagnosis of this issue. We’ve been trying a series of experiments and are narrowing down the conditions needed to stimulate the problem.

Unfortunately, even a reinstall of MsgFiler didn’t work to resolve the compatibility error that I get from Mail 4.4. I love MsgFiler and can’t imagine working without it. Any other suggestion on how to tackle the 4.4 compatibility issue?

Hi there,
Great job with MsgFiler! I just downloaded it the other day and I love it already! I started off using the command-9 keyboard shortcut, and then I figured that it would be easier for me to use option-M instead. But it turns out that you actually can’t assign any LETTERS to the keyboard shortcut for MsgFiler, because Mail interferes. For example, when I hit option-M on my keyboard, Mail took over and started selecting any messages that began with the letter “M” (either the sender’s name or the subject name). Only when Mail ran out of matching messages did it yield control to MsgFiler. Any way to override Mail being overly-selfish like this? ;-) In the meantime, I’ve got mine set back to command-9 again.
Thanks again!
Scott

I have a feature request, which I think others would find very useful.

Have a checkbox preference to “restrict move/copy destinations to same mail account”

I use gmail, and sometimes have the same label in multiple accounts. This will prevent me from accidentally copying a message over to a different account — a definite mistake for me.

Would this be a complex task? Seems like we would restrict the list of destinations to the current message’s mailbox. I hope finding out the current mailbox is easy, because then this would be a very simple enhancement.

Do you have the ability to write a plugin that will allow filing of a message in a folder when it is sent? I just submitted this to Apple feedback, but I don’t know if they will ever respond, and a plugin MIGHT do the trick:

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I used Pegasus Mail on Windows for years because of one feature: the ability to file my e-mail in a folder of my choosing at the time of sending. When I moved to a Mac, no one had this. Eventually, someone came out with a Thunderbird plugin which did the same thing.

This is so important to me (and other users from what I’ve found) because it keeps mail from being put in a general “Sent” folder. E-mail is a core part of my business. The ability to file customer e-mail in distinct folders at the time of sending is a time saver when it comes to archiving messages, searching for data on a customer, etc.

Will Apple consider adding this feature? I’d love to use the integrated Mail product, but this is a deal killer by not having this feature.

Is there anyway to get MsgFiler to open in a “change folder” mode ? That is I have cmd-S for save, and I’d like to have cmd-A or something open the panel in a movemode. The only practical difference is pressing enter would activate “Go-To Mailbox” instead of “Save”. It feels awkward to do command/type/command instead of command/type/enter. Minor nit, but would love it :)

I purchased a license on January 7, 2011, and PayPal shows that the transaction was completed. However, I have never received my license code, so the annoying popups continue. Please check your records and furnish my license code as soon as possible. Thank you very much.